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A collection of 13 international short films that reflect upon the social, political, personal, erotic and artistic changes that have happened over the last several years. The moving image artists selected for this program all made shorts that approached conventional subjects with innovative filmmaking styles and techniques.
| Catalog Number: MC-574 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Mixed Genre, Various |
| Copyright: 2006 |
Length: 63 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 880198057495 |
| Label: Blackchair Collection |
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Films In Compilation
Trauma directed by
Chris
Ohlson
USA,
Video Art / Film Art,
2006,
super8,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:45
On October 22nd something terrible happened.
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Reveries From Cistae Memoria directed by
Phil
Hastings
USA,
Animation,
2005,
35mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:10:36
Utilizing stop-motion animation, “Reveries from Cistae memoria” explores the subjective and oneiric journeys through fragmented and reconstructed memories. The use of Linnaean classifications within the film describes the steps of memory creation, transformation, and storage. The film weaves the true-life letters and stories of the filmmaker’s grandparents with fabricated and reconstructed memories and images to impress on the viewer the frustration and sublime beauty of fractured memory due to age and disease.
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Surveil directed by
Jake
Messenger
United Kingdom,
Video Art / Film Art,
2005,
mini-DV,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:01:10
Using a mix of stills and moving image, and footage in colour and black and white, a single performer is captured by the camera moving within the confines of the screen space.
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Bessie Cohen, Survivor of 1911 Shirtwaist Fire directed by
Hope
Tucker
USA,
Documentary,
2000,
dv,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:00
An obituary whittles one’s social contribution down to its barest form and the last ninety years of a life become eclipsed by an escape from a burning building, the site of one of the worst industrial disasters in US history. Like all obituaries, this is a selective interpretation of a rich and complex life. The Obituary Project, an ongoing series with some fifteen elegiac shorts completed to date, rearranges the contours of biography by acknowledging the attributes by which we learn to recognize and which become markers of authentic life.
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2AM: Two Around The Mountain directed by
Lina
Dorado
USA,
Animation,
2005,
DV,
B&W,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:06:00
At two in the morning on a day like today a man and a
woman leave their homes in the highlands and start running.
Watch their lives unfold in real time and glimpse, for a brief
moment, the curious links between the Andes and the Himalayas.
Based on a true story.
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Night Visions directed by
Kathy
Huang
USA,
Documentary,
2005,
16mm,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:07:15
Soon after September 11th, Blake Roberts enlisted in the U.S. Army. Now, four years later, he has returned from Iraq a changed man. Using photographs shot by Roberts during his tour of duty, Night Visions tells the story of an average soldier, one who has come home quietly but suffers from wounds not visible to the naked eye.
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Burka Boogie Woogie directed by
Sietske
Tjallingii
Netherlands,
Music,
2006,
35 mm,
Color,
Optical,
00:05:09
What is under a burka?
A sensual and graphic dance of two dancers under a burka. The burka begins to have a life of its own, as it metamorphoses into a variety of shapes, and plays with our fear and mystery of Islam.
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Deshabiller de Blanc directed by
Frederic
Lecomte
France,
Erotic,
2005,
DVD,
B&W/Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:07:35
Hands present and remaining in the mass of the image. Hands undressing the white of the image. It is the same hands which kills. If films had remained silent, it would have contributed to create a sort of thesaurus of visual anthropology where the hand, only actress, would have become the master of the game, touching from the tip of the finger the surface’s white. Here is what we lacked, the missing link between video and cinema, between a stop and a promise to start again. Frédéric Lecomte elaborates video notebooks executed with the speed of a sketch, a sketch of a moving image, a recycling of films, of TV, a sum of images which he then reactivates when he cuts them up and empty them out. This is what he calls “décorps” which literally means “unbody” and is a pun with the french “décor”. The “décorps” where video acts itself as theatre of the ambiguous, as ambiguity of the theatre, which exposes truth and illusion in a same movement of giving and withdrawing. But those cut out images, skeletons of an image which had lost any likeness to its original, ask the question not of what they are showing but of what they do not show anymore. Skeleton of a film image, for the latter, it is its certificate of presence. Does it need it? Surely, because working with images is also working with reality and – as Philippe Dagen was writing in Le Monde of June 17th 2005 – “Lecompte is doing it by only keeping the brief shock effect, fire guns and embraces repeated over and over again as the two stylistic figures of an imagery which only knows two selling arguments, sex and death."
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Get to Go directed by
Reed
O'Beirne
USA,
Art / Artist,
2006,
Super-8,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:54
A dance-film about why you can't have forever what you'll always have right now. “Get to Go” revolves around the polarities of hope & loss, water & desert, flesh & machine -- while throughout following an underlining rhythm of unity.
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Pursuit directed by
Dennis
Miller
USA,
Animation,
2004,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:16
Pursuit is the first of three short works that form the series Moving Target (2004). The piece consists of a fast-paced sequence of synthetic images onto which the music, also composed by this author, imposes a dramatic curve.
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Carla Cope directed by
Aileen
McCormack
USA,
Experimental,
2005,
super8,
Color,
Dolby Digital,
00:05:00
Carla Cope is the story of life, love and loss during the 9/11 tragedy in New York City. The film follows Carla through the city as she looks back on all she has lost while grappling with the uncertainty of her future.
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Shed Film directed by
Paul
Fletcher
Australia,
Experimental,
2005,
digital video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:53
A place where sunlight pierces through holes in the iron, where the known drifts into the unknown, then returns to compost in the ground.
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Beginning, Middle and End directed by
Daniel
Greaves
United Kingdom,
Art / Artist,
2004,
digital video,
Color,
00:04:30
An unconventional and atmospheric film in three parts illustrating the cycle of life.
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